Button.



No. s2s,2|4. Patented July 4, I899.,

F. SHERMAN. BUTTON.

(Application flled Feb. 9, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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FRANK I. SHERMAN, PROVIDENCE, RI'I OD EISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO. THE

LAWTON-SHERMAN COMPANY, or SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,214, dated July 4, 1899.

' Application filed February 9, 1899. Serial No. 705,109. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it mtty concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK I. SHERMAN, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons or Studs; and I hereby declare that the followin g is a f ull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to buttons or studs for use in personal clothing; and it consists in certain features of construction of parts, as will hereinafter be fully described.

The object of the invention is to produce a button or stud which shall be both durable and simple in construction and one that will automatically lock itself when inserted into the buttonhole or eyelet-hole.

Figure l is a side view of the button. Fig. 2 is a bottom view. Fig. 3 isa top view of the button or stud with the top cap removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional view, and in Fig. 5 the several parts of the button or stud are shown detached.

Similar marks of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, 6 indicates the top cap or front of the button or stud; 7, the back-plate, provided with the tubular shank 8 and the fixed hollow arm 0. This back-plate is preferably made in one piece with the tubular shank 8, a portion of which is bent to one side to form the hollow arm 9, one side of the arm being cut away to receive the arm 10, as is clearly shown in the drawings, or the tubular shank 8 and arm 9 maybe secured to the backplate 7 by solder or otherwise.

The arm 10 is formed of wire, a portion of I which is bent at a right angle to form the post 11. The post 11 is provided with the slot 12 at its upper end.

13 is a clamp formed on is a fiat coiled spring.

One side of the arm 9 is of concavo-convex cross-section, or of substantially semicylindrical form, to allow the arm 10 when turned as shown in Fig. 2 to be covered about onehalf its side. The spring 14 is a volute spiral scroll-spring, which, lying flat against the back-plate, acts to keep the movable arm in the expanded position-that is, projecting in an opposite direction to the fixed arm. The

the plate 7, and 14 arm 10 is held from turning farther than oil a line with the fixed arm by reason of its com ing in contact withthe shoulder 18 formed by the connection of the arm 9 with the tubular shank 8.

The various parts of the button or stud hav= ing been constructed substantially as herein shown and described, they are assembled as follows: The coiled spring 14 is placed upon the plate 7 with the end 15 under the clamp 13, which iscompressed to firmly hold the spring in place. The post 11 of the arm 10 is then passed through the hollow shank Sand the end 16 of the spring is forced into the slot 12. The ends of the post 11 are then pinched together to hold that end of the spring at 17 in Fig. 4. The cap 6 is then placed over the spring and back-plate and secured in place by rolling the edge over ontothe back of the plate 7 In using the button or stud the arm 10, secured to the post 11,is turned against the pressure of the spring until it is in the position shown in Fig. 2, when the pointed end 19 is passed into the buttonhole of the garment. The moment the ends of the arms pass beyond the inner side of the buttonhole or eyelet-hole the spring causes them to separate until they have passed completely through, when they will be in the expanded position shown in Figs. 1, 3, and at. T0 extract the button or stud, the two arms are brought together by hand below the eyelet-hole, as shown in Fig. 2, when it can be readily withdrawn from the garment.

The device is simple in construction, operates automatically to hold the arms in the locked position, and cannot be lost from the garment.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a button, or stud, the combination with the back-plate 7, the tubular shank 8 extending from the back-plate and the substantially semicylindrical arm 9 extending radially from the end of the tubular shank 8, of the post 11 extending through the tubular shank 8 and above the back-plate 7, said post 11 having its lower end bent at a right angle to the shank I to form the arm 10, and the volute or spiral scroll-spring 14 one end of which is secured ically, until they assume the locked position,-

to the post 11 and the other to the back-plate as described. a I 7, whereby the arms 9 and 10 are held by the In witness whereof I have hereunto set my spring to point in opposite directions to lock hand.

5 the button, and, when forcibly held one with- FRANK I. SHERMAN;

in the other, they may be entered into a small, \Vitnesses: circular eyelethole, and as the arms pass J. A. MILLER, J r.,- through the eyelet-hole they spread automat- B. M. SIMMS; 

